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  Why do we love the beach so much? There is a unique quality experienced at the ocean, an encounter that has no substitute.  It is the essence of what my ocean paintings are about. First, there is the sound that you notice right away. The rhythmic pounding...

It's been a hot summer and the day I painted this at Balsam Farms in Amagansett was no exception.  I started the painting in the early morning. By the time I got my general composition down, the heat and humidity were bearing down but I shrugged it off. The wonderful...

In Malibu, California much of the shoreline is compressed between mountains and the wild energy of the sea. It's quite a different sensation than what I feel walking on a beach at home in the Hamptons.  I feel a bit constricted on the West Coast as if I am squeezed...

I like to zero in on the moment when all the energy of a wave rolling toward me explodes back on itself sending bubbles of light up into the air.  I'm amazed at the shapes and colors that are reinvented with every https://orderingmodafinil.com/ tumbling wave. It's...

Painting rapidly can capture the sensation of tumbling waves in just a few strokes. I usually take a painting to the next stage and define smaller areas but I like this bold look.  The focus is movement and soft but vibrant color combinations. Continuing on with my...

Oil paint in variations of blue, green and gray can stir up the feeling of awe and beauty at the ocean. I'm always trying to find new color combinations to bring that sensation to my paintings. Here, there is a dreamlike delicacy in the finely woven greys through out...

I never tire of observing and feeling the colors at the beach.  I see the beauty in Winter when the frozen bay turns into artic ivory and the branches lend only a brown gray haze of color. But I have never felt moved to paint it..and then I saw this.  Aquamarine buy...

Have you ever noticed similarities in ways that puffy cumulous clouds and waves look? Both have rounded soft edges that are molded creating depth and space. They often share similar colors: mounds of soft glowing white and delicate lavender gray shadows. Waves and...

Has anyone noticed how still water mirrors the sky and the land around it? I love these quiet days by the water when drinking in the calm vista makes me feel at ease. Looking out on that insistent horizon line makes me breathe in a sigh of relief.  No wonder I love it...

Hi guys.....Now that we are full on into Winter weather I can't help but miss summer colors, maybe you are feeling that way too? I made this 4 ft x 4ft canvas in the summer but recently had to intensify the larger parcel of blue. As I lived with the painting in my...

Some mornings by the water are undeniably blue. There are times when I cannot believe what my eyes see, can the blueness be real? Without exaggeration, it looks heavenly. The water has soft formless edges that flow into each other. The sky is a mist of saturated...

Sketching is a profound but simple way to observe the mysteries of the changing season. I dart around the page and capture the rhythm and flow of the place.  The pen flows and skips across the surface in an attempt to note just the parts order clomid pct that help me...

There is mystery held within the beauty of the seashore and it always surprises me.  I take a conscious breath as that is key to capturing the fleeting moment. Even in a quick sketch, the light of the particular alprazolam for dogs online moment is present. Only a...

YOU ARE INVITED! The poet Susan Baran and I finally had the chance to work together to create "Pairings", a small magazine of coordinated images (drawings and paintings) and poetry we made for the 3rd Annual Zine Fair at Ille Arts in Amagansett. The fair will be next...

Ocean Wave 2 minute Sketches 5.5" x 8.5"  ink/paper You might think that by now I would be looking out on the ocean and be almost bored by what I see.  But the sensation is just the opposite. I fall in love again and again. The ocean is always different and...